Tag: constitutional amendment
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Rule of Law or Rule of Trump? How the United States is Defining Canada’s Election
—Dr. Alexandra Flynn, Associate Professor and Director, Housing Research Collaborative; Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] These days, Canadian media is entirely consumed with President Trump’s latest dramas, from tariffs to the unilateral…
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 6: The Future of the Mexican Supreme Court
—Alfonso Herrera, Universidad Panamericana & Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City) [Editors’ Note: This is Part 6 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 5: The Other Judicial Reforms in Mexico – Elected and Faceless Judges, Military Personnel with Investigative Tasks, and Mandatory Pre-Trial Detention
—Sandra Serrano, Researcher at IIJ-UNAM [Editors’ Note: This is Part 5 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 4: The Mexican Judicial Reform — So What?
—Rodrigo Camarena González, ITAM [Editors’ Note: This is Part 4 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 3: The Judicial Reform Snowball and the State of Mexican Democracy
—Francisca Pou Giménez, UNAM [Editors’ Note: This is Part 3 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 2: The Transition to Another Type of Constitutionalism in Mexico
—Roberto Niembro Ortega, UNAM [Editors’ Note: This is Part 2 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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Mexico’s Constitutional Democracy in Crisis: The Judicial Overhaul is Only the Beginning
—Mariana Velasco-Rivera, Maynooth University, Jaime Olaiz, Universidad Panamericana, and Irene Parra Prieto, ITAM [Editor’s Note: Cross-posted from the IACL-AIDC blog.] The final act of Mexican President López Obrador will be in collaboration with the president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and the newly elected Congress, after the landslide victory of MORENA’s coalition last June.
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Celebrating International Women’s Day by Promoting Pro-Women Constitutional Amendments: A Risky Strategy?
—Tania Groppi, Università degli Studi di Siena [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] March 8, 2024, International Women’s Day, was marked, in France and in Ireland, by two constitutionally significant events with very different outcomes.
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Environmental Protection in the Italian Constitution: Lights and Shadows of the New Constitutional Reform
–Damiano Fuschi, Assistant Professor of Comparative Public Law, University of Milan, Italy On February 8 2022, a reform of the first part of the Italian Constitution has been approved for the first time since 1948. The core of the reform lays on the aim of the legislator to introduce a clear and strong protection of…
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Mexico’s Upcoming Presidential Recall Election has been Hijacked by the President’s Party
—Mariana Velasco-Rivera, National University of Ireland Maynooth, School of Law and Criminology; Co-Editor, IACL Blog. Twitter: @marisconsin. [Editor’s Note: This is one of our regular ICONnect columns.] In recent years, a series of constitutional amendments have introduced mechanisms of direct democracy in Mexico—in particular, referendums (2012) and Presidential recall elections (2019).